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Lenny Henry examines how protest and violence found their way onto the stage and screen, notably in Horace Ove's 1976 feature film Pressure. From November 2015.

To end the first week of Raising the Bar, in the fifth of ten programmes tracing a century of black British theatre and screen, Lenny Henry takes a journey back to the 1960s and 70s to catch the spirit of protest and violent anger that welled up as the result of years of overt or thinly-veiled racism.

With the advent of the Black Power movement, British African Caribbeans found a new and angry voice - it expressed itself on stage and on screen, notably in Horace Ov茅's film Pressure, that tells the story of a young black British boy growing up under powerful influences: his old parents' rectitude, his own desire to make his way in the society he's been born into, and the angry, uncompromising voices of his Black Power advocate brother.

Horace Ov茅 talks to Lenny Henry about the world that inspired this famous first British feature film by a black director.

Series Consultant Michael Pearce
Producer Simon Elmes.

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15 minutes

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Sat 28 Jul 2018 02:15

Broadcasts

  • Fri 13 Nov 2015 13:45
  • Fri 27 Jul 2018 14:15
  • Sat 28 Jul 2018 02:15